Africa Wild

Posted: **Fri Jun 20, 2014 10:14 am**

Richprins wrote:
How grotesque! Feet over 30cm long!

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Richprins wrote: If you don't see tsessebe at Longname, you are useless!

Posted: **Fri Jun 20, 2014 10:19 am**

I like the creepies $O\/$ $O\/$ $O\/$

The last beetle is a firefly (Lampyridae)

Posted: **Fri Jun 20, 2014 10:21 am**

Bushcraft wrote:Horrors BT

Great pics , but creepy crawlies freak me out

Thanks BC. Some of these things used to creep me out too but I have become used to them in the last couple of years. I'm trying not to get too overconfident but I'm sure I'll step over the mark at some time and get zapped.

Posted: **Fri Jun 20, 2014 10:30 am**

Toko wrote:

I like the creepies $O\/$ $O\/$ $O\/$

The last beetle is a firefly (Lampyridae)

We know you like creepies (as evidenced by your attraction to RP).

Fantastic, a firefly! Another new one for the book! I thought it was a Netwinged Beetle, some of them are very similar!

Posted: **Fri Jun 20, 2014 3:58 pm**

Pangolin... Pangolin... creepies instead

sorry I can't make commentaries on the last pages

Posted: **Fri Jun 20, 2014 6:39 pm**

Some nice shots, BluTuna,

but you definitely have not to suffer under arachnophobia $\O$ $\O$ $\O$

Posted: **Fri Jun 20, 2014 9:32 pm**

To quote Bulltuner:

And to give it some scale, my shoe is over 30cm long.

I must say, these things pitch up now and again, and are indeed the longest insects, if not terrestrial arthropods, in the world! And they have wings and can fly for short distances..a rather pointless exercise, and a VERY good question as to how evolution has funnelled this species into some sort of super insect....with a dead end probably being the answer!

Posted: **Sat Jun 21, 2014 9:02 am**

Richprins wrote:To quote Bulltuner:

And to give it some scale, my shoe is over 30cm long.

To quote Richprins :-
How grotesque! Feet over 30cm long!

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Where did you read that my FEET were over 30cm long?

The Stick Insects in this region are babies, the longest insect ever discovered (also a Stick Insect) is from Borneo and measures a whopping 56.7cm!!!!

Here's a report

It's not unknown for creatures to develop into evolutionary cul-de-sacs, the Giraffe is probably another of them.

Posted: **Sat Jun 21, 2014 9:05 am**

nan wrote:Pangolin... Pangolin... creepies instead

sorry I can't make commentaries on the last pages

Thanks Nan, I'll forgive you for not commenting on the last posting $\O$

Posted: **Sat Jun 21, 2014 9:09 am**

Pumbaa wrote:Some nice shots, BluTuna,

but you definitely have not to suffer under arachnophobia $\O$ $\O$ $\O$

Spiders don't bother me much but I'm not going to pick them up! I'm a lot less keen on Scorpions!

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